Eleven mattresses came out of one house at Corby Glen. That is house clearance in Grantham for you — or rather in the villages hung off it, because NG33 runs a long way out from the town and half our work here is down a lane somewhere. February 2020, that job was, and it ran to six van loads over two days.
Two chest freezers. Two small fridge freezers. A pair of gas bottles that had been standing in an outbuilding for years, going by the state of the valves. And the mattresses, eleven of them, carried down and out one after another until the lads had lost count and had to go back through the rooms to check. The executor lived over the county line in Rutland and wasn't there for either day; we kept him posted by email morning and afternoon, and sent photographs of the empty rooms at the end of it.
That is a fairly typical shape for house clearance in Grantham and the villages round it. Big old stone properties, deep plots, outbuildings nobody has opened since the last owner but one, and the family living somewhere else entirely. We have been doing this work since 2007, so a house with forty years of contents in it is an ordinary Tuesday.
A flat in NG31, and a solicitor paying from the estate
June 2023, we were in Grantham proper. A flat, NG31, close enough to the town centre that the team walked to the sandwich shop at dinner time. Two van loads in the end — the second one the same day, once we had seen the volume properly — and among it a full-size fridge freezer, a smaller one, a mattress, a television set, and a POP item. That last one takes explaining: it means upholstered furniture with foam in it, sofas and armchairs mostly, which since 2023 has to be kept separate and destroyed on its own regulated route rather than tipped in with the general waste. Fridges and freezers go their own way too. They are classed as hazardous, so the gas has to be drawn off by someone permitted to do it, and you cannot just sling them in the back with the wardrobes.
The son handling it had spoken to us on the phone first, then written to check we were still coming on the Thursday. We were. Team met him at nine, cleared the flat, and the paperwork went straight to the solicitors dealing with the estate, which is how a good half of our probate work is handled. Afterwards he wrote: "they were really nice and did an amazing job." Nothing dramatic in that, but it's the bit we care about — a clearance is usually happening on somebody's worst month, and the people doing it need to be decent company for a day.
If you're an executor, you don't need to be at the property at all. Keys can come from a neighbour, a relative, or an agent, and we'll email photographs of every room once it's empty so you can see what you're signing off.
What sort of house clearance in Grantham we get called out for
Probate house clearance Grantham
Most of it. Probate work is the bulk of what we do here, and the pattern repeats. The house belongs to a parent who lived in it fifty years, the children live in London or Leeds or abroad, and everything has to be arranged by telephone. On probate house clearance in Grantham we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly — that is normal, we do it every week, and payment can come out of the estate rather than out of anybody's own pocket. There is no deposit. The invoice follows the work, once the property is empty and you have seen the photographs. The quote itself is free and commits you to nothing. If the probate is still going through and you only want the house emptied when the grant comes, say so. Dates that far out are not a problem, and a lot of our probate bookings are made weeks before anyone can act on them.
Executors ask us for two things more than anything else: pictures at the end, and the waste paperwork. Both come as standard. See our probate house clearance page for the way we handle estates generally.
Garage and loft clearance in Grantham
Garage and loft clearance is half the job on the older stone properties out in NG32 and NG33, and it is where the day usually overruns if nobody has looked first. Lofts round here are boarded in strips rather than properly floored, so a man goes up with a light and passes down to a second man on the ladder. Suitcases, Christmas decorations, cot mattresses, boxes of records, the odd water tank that was replaced and never taken out. Garages are worse, because they hold the things a house cannot: paint tins, garden chemicals, tyres, a mower with fuel still in it, gas canisters for a caravan that went years ago. Some of those have their own disposal route and cannot go on the van with the furniture. Tell us on the phone if you know there is a loft, a garage, a shed or a workshop, because garage and loft clearance changes how many people we bring and how long we book the property for.
Flat clearance in NG31 and end of tenancy work
The flats and the terraced streets in NG31 are a different job from a village farmhouse. Stairs, no lift, a shared entrance you cannot prop open all day, and parking that has to be worked out before the van turns up rather than at nine in the morning with a queue behind us. End of tenancy clearance is usually against a deadline — keys back Friday, checkout inspection Monday — so we book those tight and turn up when we say. Landlords and managing agents tend to want the white goods out, the carpets and curtains left, and a written confirmation that it is done.
Hoarder house clearance in Grantham
Some houses have been filling up for thirty or forty years. Hoarder house clearance is slower, it is done room by room rather than van by van. The team leader walks the whole property before a single item is moved so we can say honestly how many loads and how many days it will take. Nobody pulls a face, and nothing gets talked about afterwards. If you tell us plainly that the house is cluttered and there is more than one day in it, that is far more useful than "just a few bits" — we would always rather know.
Getting a price for house clearance in Grantham
Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 and describe the property, or send photographs through the form on this page. That is all it takes to get a figure back. Photographs are best — a picture of each room, the loft hatch, the garage and the shed, and anything heavy or awkward. The quote is free and there is nothing to sign.
What we need to know is simple. How many bedrooms, whether there is a loft, garage, shed or garden involved, anything heavy or awkward such as a stair lift or a piano, and anything at all that has to be left behind. A stair lift, for instance, gets dismantled rather than wrestled out, and that is a different sort of morning. Tell us about parking as well. Half the villages round here have no restrictions and a farm gate to back into; the terraces off the town centre in NG31 are tighter, and we would sooner know in advance than find out.
Where the vans go
Grantham sits in South Kesteven, in Lincolnshire, with the A1 running past the western edge and the East Coast Main Line through the middle. Grantham station has trains to King's Cross in a bit over an hour, which is why so many of the properties we clear here belong to families who moved away south and kept the house. We cover NG31 and NG32 in and around the town, NG33 out through Colsterworth and Corby Glen, NG32 out to Ancaster, NG34 across to Sleaford, and the PE districts down to Stamford, Bourne and the Deepings.
Barrowby, Great Gonerby, Harlaxton, Long Bennington, Denton, Woolsthorpe — all a short run out from the town on a clearance day. If you're on the Leicestershire or Rutland edge, near Bottesford or Uppingham, ask anyway; we've worked both sides of that boundary plenty.
Neighbouring towns have their own pages, and the same team covers them. house clearance in Lincoln up the A607, house clearance in Peterborough down the A1, house clearance in Stamford on the Rutland side, and house clearance in Sleaford out east across NG34.
Waste, charity and the paperwork
Furniture and household goods in decent condition go to a charity shop or a reuse scheme where one will take them, and round here plenty will. Bric-a-brac, unopened tools, garden furniture, books — there's no sense burying something that somebody else would gladly use. What's genuinely finished with is taken to a permitted transfer station and weighed in, and the tickets are kept, so there's a record for every load that leaves your property. Our waste carrier registration with the Environment Agency is CBDU419679, and we're insured for the work and for the property while we're in it.
South Kesteven collects the household bins and Lincolnshire County Council runs the recycling centres, but neither of them will empty a house for you. A skip on a Grantham terrace means a permit, a wait, and everything carried out to the kerb by hand. That's the difference: we do the carrying.
How to book us
Ring 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page. We'll come back with a figure, book a date, and turn up at nine with the right van and the right number of people. If a date has to move because probate is slower than anyone expected, that's fine — it happens on half the estates we handle.
Questions we get asked about house clearance in Grantham
Can you invoice the solicitor? Yes. We invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, and that is how most probate house clearance in Grantham is settled. Payment can come out of the estate. There is no deposit — the invoice follows the work.
Do I need to be there on the day? No. Keys can come from a neighbour, a relative or an agent, and we email photographs of every room once the house is empty.
Which districts do you cover around Grantham? NG31 and NG32 in and around the town, NG33 out through Colsterworth and Corby Glen, and out to Ancaster, with Sleaford, Stamford and Bourne on the edges of the same working day.
Will you do the loft and the garage as well as the house? Yes — garage and loft clearance is part of most jobs here. Tell us at the quote stage so we bring enough people and book the right length of day.
What happens to things that are still usable? They go to a charity shop or a reuse scheme where one will take them. Whatever is genuinely finished with goes to a permitted transfer station and is weighed in, and we keep the tickets under our carrier registration CBDU419679.
